Game.



A. M. SHATTUCK.

GAME.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2|. 191:.

1 ,,Q69,3Q3. Patented J une 11, 1918.

Ill/I/EN TOR gfl wm ATTORNEY of the board 1,

" innren ABIBIE MARIA sHA'rruoK, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAME.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedJfune 11, acre.

Application filed July 21, 1917. Serial No. 181,953.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ABBIE M. SHATTUCK, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which'the following is aspecification.

The device the subject of this invention 2 is a game, and I desire that it be understood that the game has asits definite purposethe development of the skill of the players in emphasizing'the delicacy-of touch, the approximation of value and an understanding of the inertia of bodies of different weights and diameters. It will be seen, therefore, that this game is not a game ofchance, but is rather one well adapted to develop in the player skill and judgment that may be useful in connection with other games or useful work,

Primarily this game is intended as a pastime, and, therefore, I do not intend that it should be surrounded with complex rules, but that rather it should be simplified to a series of operative actions, the successful performance of which will be possible by continued application or practice.

The following is what I consider a good means of carrying out this invention and the accompanying drawings should be referred to for a complete understanding of the specification which follows.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows a plan view of the game board with one of the movable members in position.

Fig. 2 shows the series of movable members employed by each player.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in all of the figures where they appear.

The member which I will refer to as a game board consists of a board of wood or card board, fiber or other similar or satisfactory material, flat and approximately square as shown at 1.

Surrounding the edges of the board 1, are

rails or walls 2,

and secured thereto and to each other.

Into the board 1, I introduce a plurality of recesses of different shapes and sizes, such recesses are indicated as follows; At 6 3, 4 and 5, one at each side a small recess retains the movable member at the start. At 7 a slightly larger recess is shown, and this. recess is, oval, another and larger oval recess isshown at 8, a round recess at 9, and two additional recesses at 10 and-11. .1 a

To make the game definite and interesting I have indicated these recesses by employing, in relation toeach a-nameor title. The recess 7 is termed a Flakej the recess 8 a brook, 9 a swamp, 10 home', and 11 police station. 1 i

Secured upon the board 1 are a plurality of bailies or rails arranged inpair's, and between each pair is a space sufiiciently large for the largest movable member to pass, and in describing the location of; the baifies and the reference characters which apply thereto, I will refer to them in the order in which the game is played, and following 7 the course of the dotted line A.

The members used in playing this game are shown in Fig. 2, and consist of a 111- rality of marbles or agates 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, and it will be noted that they vary in size and consequently in weight. The marbles are propelled along the course of the dotted line by means of a very thin pointer 17 which may be made of wood or other suitable material. The pointer should be round and tapered and the smallest end should be used in propelling the marbles.

The player places one of the marbles, probably the larger marble 12, in the position shown in Fig. 1, and then lightly grasping the pointer or propeller 17 between the thumb and fingers propels the marble by a series of pushing movements or strokes along the dotted line A. The marble is urged from between the barriers 18 downward and obliquely upward and then through the barriers 19 to and through the barriers 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 to a point midway between the barriers 28 and 29, and then if sufiiciently skilful the marble may be moved to the home recess indicated at 10. It will be noted that the line of travel through the separate barriers is a circuitous path, which at difl'erent points comes into close approximation to the recesses 7, 8, -9, and 11, and should by any chance the marble drop into. one of these recesses the player is penalized by a loss of a turn or of a count.

to move each of his ame is for each player 've marbles of difl'erent Weights and sizes along the course A from the start at 6 to home at lO, and other rules being ignored the person who is'successful reaches the home position with all five marbles Wins the game.

The object of the To play the game successfully the iii a flat and level or decreasing the number of barriers, by increasing or decreasingthe size'ori number of recesses or by any other change which may suggest itself in the operation of the game here described; I prefer the game to be constructed and played in the manner described.

Having carefully and fully described my inventionvvhat I claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent'is 1. A game consisting of a game board provided with a plurality of baflles and a plurality of movable members of different Copies of 'this patent sizesadapted to be propelled through said baifies. a

2. A game comprising a game board having a plurality of baffles arranged in pairs and a plurality of movable members adapted to be traversed in a circuitous passage through said bafiles.

A game board having a plurality of bame's arranged in pairs and angularly disposed to each other, a plurality of marbles of different Weights adapted to be propelled through said baffles and a pointer forpropelling said marbles.

A-A game; board provided With a plura'lity ofrecesses and a plurality of baflies arrangedin pairs and secured" to said board, said pairs of baflles being angularlydisposed uponithe surfaceofsaid'board, and a plu rality of marbles of difl'erent sizes adapted to be propelled in a circuitous line through said baffles ahd means for propelling said marbles along said circuitous line. 4 a Signed at New York City, county and Stage of New York this 8th day of July, 191;

ABBIE 'MARIA SHATTUGK.

Witnesses: 1

i G. E. S. MARE,

ARTHUR PIlELPS MARK.

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Washington, D. G. 

